| 1 | 战役 | 戰役 | zhàn yì | zhan4 yi4 | military campaign | | |
| 2 | 役 | 役 | yì | yi4 | forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle | | |
| 3 | 奴役 | 奴役 | nú yì | nu2 yi4 | to enslave; slavery | | |
| 4 | 服役 | 服役 | fú yì | fu2 yi4 | to serve in the army; in active service | | |
| 5 | 服兵役 | 服兵役 | fú bīng yì | fu2 bing1 yi4 | to serve in the army | | |
| 6 | 苦役 | 苦役 | kǔ yì | ku3 yi4 | forced labor; corvée; penal servitude | | |
| 7 | 田役 | 田役 | tián yì | tian2 yi4 | farm work | | |
| 8 | 斯大林格勒战役 | 斯大林格勒戰役 | sī dà lín gé lè zhàn yì | Si1 da4 lin2 ge2 le4 Zhan4 yi4 | Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces | | |
| 9 | 使役 | 使役 | shǐ yì | shi3 yi4 | to use (an animal or servant); working (animal); (beast) of burden; causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc) | | |
| 10 | 仆役 | 僕役 | pú yì | pu2 yi4 | servant | | |
| 11 | 平津战役 | 平津戰役 | píng jīn zhàn yì | Ping2 jin1 Zhan4 yi4 | Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War | | |
| 12 | 免服兵役 | 免服兵役 | miǎn fú bīng yì | mian3 fu2 bing1 yi4 | to be exempt from military service (idiom) | | |
| 13 | 孟良崮战役 | 孟良崮戰役 | mèng liáng gù zhàn yì | Meng4 liang2 gu4 Zhan4 yi4 | Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists | | |
| 14 | 中途岛战役 | 中途島戰役 | zhōng tú dǎo zhàn yì | Zhong1 tu2 Dao3 Zhan4 yi4 | Battle of Midway, June 1942 | | |
| 15 | 劳役 | 勞役 | láo yì | lao2 yi4 | forced labor; corvée (labor required of a serf); animal labor | | |
| 16 | 毕其功于一役 | 畢其功於一役 | bì qí gōng yú yī yì | bi4 qi2 gong1 yu2 yi1 yi4 | to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom) | | |
| 17 | 拘役 | 拘役 | jū yì | ju1 yi4 | detention | | |
| 18 | 靖难之役 | 靖難之役 | jìng nán zhī yì | jing4 nan2 zhi1 yi4 | war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor | | |
| 19 | 淮海战役 | 淮海戰役 | huái hǎi zhàn yì | Huai2 hai3 Zhan4 yi4 | Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war | | |
| 20 | 瓜达卡纳尔战役 | 瓜達卡納爾戰役 | guā dá kǎ nà ěr zhàn yì | Gua1 da2 ka3 na4 er3 zhan4 yi4 | battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific | | |
| 21 | 夫役 | 夫役 | fū yì | fu1 yi4 | corvee; laborer | | |
| 22 | 超期服役 | 超期服役 | chāo qī fú yì | chao1 qi1 fu2 yi4 | to extend active duty (military); to exhibit superb skill (idiom) | | |
| 23 | 差役 | 差役 | chāi yì | chai1 yi4 | forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée); bailiff of feudal yamen | | |
| 24 | 不列颠战役 | 不列顛戰役 | bù liè diān zhàn yì | Bu4 lie4 dian1 Zhan4 yi4 | Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940) | | |
| 25 | 兵役 | 兵役 | bīng yì | bing1 yi4 | military service | | |